August 31, 2021

 

Jeffrey and Jennifer Seamons and their family moved to Caldwell, ID, in the fall of 2021. Sister Seamons has a teaching position at Nampa High School, teaching orchestra and German. Previously she had been employed at the Soda Springs, ID, high school. They have 3 sons still at home, David who is serving a mission at this time, Jonathan, and Jacob. Three older sons Joseph, Sam and Ben are married.

The new baby of Ben and Mollie Seamons was blessed and named in the Mink Creek Ward. This tiny boy was given the name of Andrew Hart Seamons. Mollie’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Collins from North Carolina were able to be here for the occasion, along with the Mink Creek grandparents, Jeff and Jennifer Seamons, and great grandparents Scott and Cathy Seamons and Joe and Kathy Jarvis.

Our community has had word of the passing of Iva Lou Christensen Morgan recently. Iva Lou grew up here, a daughter of Lloyd and Rena Christensen. Her brother Lee, and Sandra Christensen are the only immediate family still in residence in Mink Creek.

Kevin Olson has passed away. He loved growing up on the Station Creek farm of Delmer and Velda Olson. Kevin has dealt with many health issues during his life, but maintained a positive attitude and great sense of humor. Three of the Olson siblings have homes in Mink Creek: Nate, Jimmie, and Jeff. Kevin’s sisters have kept their Idaho roots, ReNae Mellor in the Boise area and Millie Mower in American Falls.

With the smoke from fires to the west of us flowing in and out we have some days that our valley shrinks visually and our mountains nearly disappear from view. We have received several cloudbursts in the past couple of weeks and the moisture has given our landscape a boost of greening, warding off the feeling of an early descent of fall. However, some leaves are already in the process of color change.

I hope you have noticed our beautiful roadway sunflowers. They are everywhere this year, along the roads, off in the edge of a field. And since the highway maintenance crews have recently given the highway lines a new paint job, that yellow of the sunflowers matches the center lines perfectly.